Dazhong Insurance said it would appeal a court order to pay damages to Microsoft for using unlicensed copies of the US firm’s software, the Wall Street Journal reported. "We don’t think it’s a settled issue yet," said Ma Xing, vice president of Dazhong, of the Shanghai court’s ruling that his company must pay US$318,000 in damages for intellectual property infringement. Ma separately told state media that Dazhong and Microsoft had been in negotiations for more than a year, but the compensation proposed by the US firm "was vastly different to the amount we could accept." He suggested Microsoft’s high demands derived from its "monopoly status" in China. Microsoft hailed the ruling as its biggest legal victory in China. The company has long complained about piracy in the country and, in the case of Dazhong, it said it made repeated requests that the company stop infringing before resorting to civil action.
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